badgerballs

Yo folks, new to this forum. The story goes like this. A few years ago I bought a NetMD MZ-N910 and top Sony ear buds, in fact upgraded from the original nz1(something like that). Fantastic piece of kit. I think I used the original NZ with Simple Burner. Wonderful... When I got the next version MZ-N910 great MP3 what more could you want. But for some reason I could not use Simple Burner. Anyway I started using Sonic Stage and got so p$%*&^D off with it keep having go go through all the stupid rigmarole 3 copies blah blah blah that I decided to buy an IPOD Video 30gig. Great piece of gear but repro quality was nowhere near the MZ. So about a week ago I got caught out in the rain and the IPOQ drowned literally in my pocket would you believe. Although it is still under warranty I have heard horror stories of people being asked to pay £100+ for water damage repairs from Apple. (surprise I think not). So I decided to rake out my virtually unused MZ. Now my main machine has a RAID MB system running under XP Pro SP2. I didn't figure this would cause any problem. I then istalled the latest MD Simple Burner 2.0.05.25150 from a local link, and all it does is bomb out with a fatal error. I have not installed any of the other Sony Software. Any ideas what the problem is here. What is the best advice here as I have downloaded Sonic Stage 4.0 fro the Sony site and a PA_Driver.exe. Is the Sony software still a load of KAK? Nothing istalled as yet and uninstalled the MD Simple Burner. Help.......